#Mendev

[blighted-elf]

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Celebration in Kenabres Square

[golariontoday]

Herne's Oak, Estrovian Forest, Mendev https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Herne%27s_Oak

[queen-scribbles]

Sosiel Vaenic said All my friends are gorgeous, actually, and we love him for it.

[starlightcleric]

What if I stopped trying to make Cin and Daeran happen and instead make Felix and Daeran happen

[crows-of-buckets]

I think one of my favorite ways to make ocs is to take the traits that were already there and amplify them. This has literally never missed for me once. ESPECIALLY negative traits. I'll come back to an oc four years down the line and suddenly they are twice as much of a Cunt and also have several new Complexes about shit it's great 10/10

[churning-the-sea-of-milk]

Was anyone gonna tell me about the beardless dwarf smith from kingmaker coming back in the newest wotr dlc and finally transitioning or was I supposed to find out by myself because hoo boy did I find out and I am so happy for her

[thedragonagelesbian]

general furio solaretti you will always be famous

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

Celia & Cecio backstory!!!!! Silver & Gold!! the horrible siblings!!!

this covers their early lives, and until both reach the point they would be at the start of their respective pwotr runs, with less detail towards the end as the fine details are still being worked out. warnings for mentions of ill health brought on by childbirth and one line mention of sex work.

Celia was born to a unknown father and a Chelaxian mother in Westcrown, they both lived in relative poverty, with her mother doing washing work, unfortunately, between her own poverty stricken life and the cold and harsh nature of washing clothes to support her and her baby Celia, her health was bad enough before she gave birth, and she had been advised not to have another child, something she did not worry about because she was happy with her and her baby.

When Celia was five, her mother caught the eye of a visiting merchant from Andoran, who she fell in love with, quickly finding herself pregnant. He made honeyed promises of paying doctors to ensure her health, but a month before she was due to give birth, he returned to Andoran, and his wife.

When Celia was six, she and a fellow washerwoman acted as the midwives, helping her mother through a painful birth that resulted in Cecio - named after the chickpeas of a foreign dish she had craved during pregnancy. This had a major impact on their mothers health, leading to Celia having to gradually take over raising her brother and being the breadwinner, through begging, thievery, and odd jobs. 

When Celia was 12 and little Cecio was six, their mother finally succumbed to her illness, leaving them behind. Shortly after, a man appeared on their doorstep, taking Cecio to his father, leaving Celia behind, only told through a neighbor's eavesdropping on the conversation. 

Now alone, she takes more and more dangerous jobs, leading to her narrowly escaping arrest in a hellknight raid on the tavern she gets her jobs at. The voice and stature of one of the hellknights seems familiar, and when she crawls out of her cubby hole the next morning and is met in the alleyway with a kind voice coming from the hellknight, she realizes that one of the previous regulars was an undercover hellknight.

She sits on the roof of where she used to live, and talks to her neighbor, debating whether she should sell her body, like her neighbor, her life like her fellow criminals, or her soul by attempting to join the hellknights. She chooses the hellknights, and spends weeks refinding the hellknight, monitoring them, and finding out who their target is.

Eventually, she meets the hellknight again, handing over all the information she could get on the target, including some only a street kid could find. She becomes an informant for the Hellknight, eventually becoming an Armiger. 

Life as a Hellknight informant and later armiger is tough, but it has the order and coin that she needs. Eventually she finds information about an Andoran noble taking in a bastard son, one with her little Cecios silver hair and eyes. 

She slowly gathers information on him, until she finally manages to send letters to her little brother, his replies painted a harsh picture, a distant father and a resentful stepmother, an older and younger brother, respectively resistant to his presence and ignorant of the whole situation. And worse of all, his training is not funded, so while his only path to success is through the art of war, he doesn't have the coin needed to fund that path.

Soon most of Celia's earnings are dispatched on merchant ships to Andoran, with only the money for her necessities kept behind. These letters and spending of coin are disguised as an informant network, and indeed she rises quickly in importance due to her knowledge of the inner workings of the Andoran council, all taken from her brother's gossip about the people who visit the house and don’t see his presence.

Thanks to his sister's support, Cecio is able to become a squire for a paladin, and thanks to his information, Celia is able to become an armiger as well as be respected as an information gatherer. 

It seems like soon Celia will take her Hellknight test, and Cecio will be able to be the son his father respects.

[Unfortunately, Celia is sent on a mission to seek the corruption in the Mendevian crusades, and Cecio is sent along with his knight master to the very same crusades]

[durgewyll]

it would be funny if tane was from minata and she dropped out of demon slayer homeschooling and ended up being a local witcher-esque monster hunter. often called to hunt down manananggal and wayang but it turns out she's actually friends with most of them

[rangedreign]

i think the azata path should have more events where you can reinvigorate farmland

i mean why are we having food shortages when i have epic nature powers???

[golariontoday]

Monastery of Tala, Mendev https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Monastery_of_Tala

[queen-scribbles]

They're best friends and you cannot convince me otherwise

[mathlann]

Lifespan-gap romances stress me out so much, I don't know why I'm doing them in two different games rn.

[eyes1nthewoods]

:D

[ssvnormandie]

replaying wotr and i am having such a hard time deciding btwn angel + legend for angharad

[the-grove]

One thing I really like about Golarion in the pathfinder 2e era is the way they are Handling Sakoris. For those who do not know Sakoris is the region of the world that was affected by the worldwound and the demonic invasion that lept out of it during and proceeding the adventure path(and bleh video game) Wrath of the Righteous.

The demons are invaders and colonizers and polluters and destroyers are of the land.

During wrath of the righteous you play as the heroes who lead the knights of mendev against the demons and save the world from becoming a part of the abyss......

The thing is... The knights of Mendev are also a colonizing force. Sure there cities were created to help push back and fight back the demons... But Mendev s singular focus on defeating the demons led to parnaoia, cruelty and oppression towards the Indigenous Sakorians who were already displaced and suffering from said demon invasions and other convenient others. This helped no one and is generally condemned both in 1e text and 2e text. And while the adventure path does have you lead the knights against the demons... You don't necessarily have to be a member of the knights you could in fact be a member of the Sakorian people or some other group from the region. The adventure path also has heavy themes of redemption, trying to do better in the present even if you've done awful things in the past, at least those are the strongest themes I connected to when reading and running said adventure path.

So the player characters and the knights are heroes.. but the knights are still colonists.

So here comes 2e the timeline hae moved forward a couple of years. The knights and Mendev are still around, the leaders of the demons are dead and gone but demonic forces still exist in the land, and the land is still damage by there presence. The question is what do the knights do now that they've largely won? And it's complicated. Some go off to fight other emerging threats while others stay in fight the remaining pockets of demonic forces.. importantly... Along side the indigenous Sakorian people. While Mendev hasn't given up it's cities it is actively working with the indigenous people of the land and helping work towards preserving and protecting what's left of those people and culture. And there is still a tension there! Though narratively the focus has been shifted away from said knights only being mentioned now and again while the Sakorians have been mentioned more and more, and will even be getting a focus in one of the books coming out next year, specifically about a school that is focused on preserving and teaching the culture of the Sakorian people.

Now the Sakorian people from my understanding are not analogous to anyone specific real life group, I've seen a lot of people claim Celtic people are the direct comparison but I've seen other groups feel represented by them as well.

I just really like how this arc has gone. The shift and focus to the Indigenous people and their struggles. Something that was acknowledged but mostly left in the background in 1e is now up and in the forefront In 2E and I think it makes for a more interesting and fresh take on the genre.